"Your scholars must have to take a lot of pills," remarked Dorothy, thoughtfully.

I believe the students would rather take the pills than study, and certainly the pills are a more effective method.

What would Sonya have done without the glad consciousness that she had not undressed during the first three nights, in order to be ready to carry out all the doctor's injunctions with precision, and that she still kept awake at night so as not to miss the proper time when the slightly harmful pills in the little gilt box had to be administered?

In spite of the many pills she swallowed and the drops and powders out of the little bottles and boxes of which Madame Schoss who was fond of such things made a large collection, and in spite of being deprived of the country life to which she was accustomed, youth prevailed.

"He must be a powerful Sorcerer!" exclaimed the Tin Woodman; "and since the powder proved a success we ought to have confidence in the pills."

"Then the pills are of no use to us," wailed the Pumpkinhead; "and this fact overwhelms me with grief.

"Now, Doctor," turning to me, "are those ordinary pills?"

"I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his penknife he suited the action to the word.